ANTZ! by Jooosh

Format: Commander

Commander: The Astonishing Ant-Man

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The Astonishing Ant-Man leads a Simic go-wide and counter-scaling strategy focused on weaponizing card draw. Every card drawn adds a +1/+1 counter to Ant-Man, which you can detach to create an army of 1/1 Insect tokens. Token doublers like Doubling Season, Parallel Lives, and Adrix and Nev amplify this board presence into an overwhelming swarm. The deck closes games through massive combat damage enabled by Cyclonic Rift or Training Regimen, recursive draw engines like Skullclamp and Kindred Discovery, or an alternate victory with Simic Ascendancy. Plentiful counterspells and instant-speed interaction protect your key permanents while you build a lethal board.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ant-Man's Army
  • 1 Ant-Man, Colony Commander
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Ascension
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deduce
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Donatello's Technique
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Essence Capture
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Ezuri, Claw of Progress
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fleeting Distraction
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Growth Curve
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
  • 1 Kid Loki
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Long-Term Plans
  • 1 Mental Modulation
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mind into Matter
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Panoptic Mirror
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Prologue to Phyresis
  • 1 Pym Particles
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Rancor
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Observer
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Astonishing Ant-Man
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Training Regimen
  • 1 Vivisurgeon's Insight
  • 1 Witness Protection